Creative Nonfiction #52 explores the uses of storytelling--our oldest and perhaps most effective art form--in non-literary fields such as law and medicine. A special essays section features collaborations between writers and science policy scholars who teamed up to tell stories about topics including a curatorial crisis at the Smithsonian; a pediatric geneticist's decision to share potentially life-changing information with one of his patients; and one legislative aide's quest to save the Chesapeake Bay from the dietary supplement industry.

Plus, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink reflects on the years of careful reporting behind her bestseller, Five Days at Memorial, and we look at the explosion in live storytelling series.

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• What's the Story by Lee Gutkind
  From the Editor
• Thinking, Writing, Publishing by Lee Gutkind
  Using narrative to bridge the gap between science policy and the public
• Narrative Medicine, Narrative Humility by Sayantani DasGupta
  Narrative medicine brings satisfaction and joy back to an ancient profession
• What was my first line again? by Graham Shelby
  In the spot light at The Moth Mainstage
• Narrative Data 
  An interview with the issue's illustrator, Matthew DiClemente